K now ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
1 Monnim anaa, anuanom, (efisɛ meka kyerɛ wɔn a wɔnim mmara,) sɛnea mmara di hene wɔ onipa so mmerɛ dodow a ɔte ase? Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
2 Efisɛ ɔbaa a ɔwɔ kunu no, mmara de no kyekyere kunu no ho mmerɛ dodow a kunu no te ase; nanso sɛ kunu no wu a, wayi no afiri kunu no mmara mu. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
3 Enti bere a kunu no te ase, sɛ ɔware obarima foforɔ a, wɔbɛfrɛ no ɔwaresɛefoɔ: nanso sɛ kunu no wu a, wayi no afiri saa mmara no mu; sɛnea ɔnyɛ ɔwaresɛefoɔ, mpo sɛ ɔware obarima foforɔ a.Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
4 Enti, m'anuanom, mo nso moayɛ awufoɔ wɔ mmara ho ɛnam Kristo honam so; sɛ mo ne obi foforɔ bɛware, nea wɔnyanee no firii awufoɔ mu no, sɛ yɛbɛsow Onyankopɔn aba. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
5 Efisɛ bere a na yɛwɔ honam mu no, bɔne akɔnnɔ, a ɛfiri mmara, yɛɛ adwuma wɔ yɛn akwaa mu sɛ ɛnsow aba mma owuo. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
6 Nanso seesei wɔayi yɛn afiri mmara mu, bere a yɛawu afiri deɛ na ɛde yɛn akyekyere no mu; sɛ yɛmfa honhom foforɔ so nsom, na ɛnyɛ ɛnam nwoma dada so. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
7 Ɛneɛ yɛnka sɛn? Mmara yɛ bɔne anaa? Ɛmpa hɔ da. Dabida, anka mennhu bɔne, gye sɛ ɛnam mmara so: efisɛ anka mennim akɔnnɔbɔne, gye sɛ mmara no kaa sɛ, Mma akɔnnɔ nni wo mu. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
8 Nanso bɔne, a ɛnam ahyɛdeɛ no so nyaa kwan no, yɛɛ akɔnnɔbɔne ahodoɔ nyinaa adwuma wɔ me mu. Efisɛ mmara nni hɔ a, anka bɔne awu. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
9 Efisɛ bere bi na anka mete ase mmara nnim hɔ: nanso bere a ahyɛdeɛ no bae no, bɔne nyaa nkwa bio, na miwuu. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
10 Na ahyɛdeɛ no, a ɛwɔ hɔ sɛ ɛde nkwa ba, mihuu sɛ ɛde owuo baa. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
11 Efisɛ bɔne, ɛnam ahyɛdeɛ no so nyaa kwan, daadaa me, na ɛnam so kum me. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
12 Enti mmara no yɛ kronkron, na ahyɛdeɛ no nso yɛ kronkron, na ɛteɛ, na ɛyɛ pa. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
13 Ɛneɛ deɛ ɛyɛ pa no ayɛ owuo ama me anaa? Ɛmpa hɔ da. Na mmom bɔne, sɛnea ɛbɛda adi sɛ ɛyɛ bɔne, ɛnam deɛ ɛyɛ pa so yɛ owuo wɔ me mu; sɛ ɛnam ahyɛdeɛ no so, bɔne bɛyɛ bɔne-mmorosoɔ. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
14 Efisɛ yɛnim sɛ mmara yɛ honhom mu deɛ: na mmom me deɛ, meyɛ honam-mu-ni, a wɔatɔn me ma bɔne. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
15 Efisɛ deɛ meyɛ no, mennim: efisɛ deɛ mepɛ no, ɛno na menyɛ; na mmom deɛ metan no, ɛno na meyɛ. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
16 Na sɛ meyɛ deɛ mempɛ a, na me ne mmara ayɛ adwene sɛ ɛyɛ pa. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
17 Ɛneɛ seesei, ɛnyɛ me na meyɛ no bio, na mmom bɔne a ɛte me mu no. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
18 Efisɛ minim sɛ me mu, (ɛne sɛ, me honam mu,) ade pa biara nte hɔ: efisɛ sɛ mɛpɛ no, ɛwɔ me nkyɛn; nanso, sɛnea mɛyɛ deɛ ɛyɛ pa no, minni. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
19 Efisɛ ade pa a mepɛ no, menyɛ: na mmom bɔne a mempɛ no, ɛno na meyɛ. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
20 Ɛneɛ sɛ meyɛ deɛ mempɛ a, ɛnyɛ me na meyɛ no bio, na mmom bɔne a ɛte me mu no. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
21 Enti mihu mmara bi sɛ, bere a mepɛ sɛ meyɛ pa no, bɔne wɔ me nkyɛn. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
22 Efisɛ m'ani gye Onyankopɔn mmara ho sɛnea onipa a ɔwɔ me mu teɛ: Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
23 Nanso mihu mmara foforɔ wɔ m'akwaa mu, a ɛne m'adwene mmara redi ako, na ɛde me kɔ nnommum ase wɔ bɔne mmara no a ɛwɔ m'akwaa mu no mu. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
24 O, onipa a m'abrabɔ yɛ mmɔbɔ nie! Hwan na ɔbɛgye me afiri saa owuo honam yi mu? Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
25 Meda Onyankopɔn ase ɛnam yɛn Awurade Yesu Kristo so. Enti, me ne ankasa, mede m'adwene som Onyankopɔn mmara; na mede me honam som bɔne mmara. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn